Pizzeria

June 2019 (for brass quintet)

This brass quintet piece illustrates the busy place with constant interactions between people and food - the pizzeria. The opening imitates a call that I have recorded between me as the customer placing an order and the worker of a pizza place in town. And a few fictional dialogues are included throughout the pieces as well, although of course, the listener will never know when and what words are being said. Pizzeria conveys the preparation of customers’ orders in haste in a small, warm kitchen, based on my fun “research” trip to another pizzeria. Watching the cooks’ swift movements in making pizzas was a great help in writing this programmatic piece of music - and the free garlic knot sample was a bonus!